>Jerry,
>
>>>>>BSA is not just concerned with MS stuff. They represent others as well. BSA is an alliance. If you call MS a bad guy then Apple, Macromedia, IBM, Novell, and Adobe must be too.
>>>>
>>>>Ya, and the Gulf war was fought by a lot of countries. :)
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>>>I don't get the comment. Are you saying the US was the only "fighting" party for the coalition?
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>>>Dan
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>>Take the US military out of the Gulf coalition forces and there wouldn't have been a military response to Iraq. Take MS out of the BSA and you won't have a BSA. Proof: why are all the pirating concerns over WinXX? How many, by comparison, actions against pirates of other software have you seen. A handful, for puposes of publicity to make the BSA seem less like an MS tool.
>
>Simple... Follow the money... <g>

Doug,

Do you have access to BSA's finacials? I don't think anybody here can show me where MS provides BSA with X dollars that account for X% of the budget. All I'm seeing are assumptions based on emotions, not facts.

Dan